Covered bridges are major tourist attractions in the New England states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. They were built for the prosaic purpose of protecting their wooden trusswork from decay, but the roof and sides made them look archaic and appealing to the tourists of the twentieth century.

New England Covered Bridges Through Time shows the covered bridges as the early wave of visitors first saw them.

Covered bridges are important symbols of Americana. They still grace the New England landscape, but many have disappeared, and the remaining examples have changed since the 1920s when tourists first became interested in them. This book shows how covered bridges have evolved since becoming popular attractions.

BOOK ISBN

9781625450616

FORMAT

235 x 165 mm

BINDING

Paperback

PAGES

96 pages

PUBLICATION DATE

15 August 2014

TERRITORY

USA

ILLUSTRATIONS

134 black-and-white photographs

Philip Read, a Boston University graduate and longtime journalist, lets you experience its hallowed halls again in Memories from the Meadowbrook.